I’m a bit confused right now… At first I thought the “Fake Man” in panels 6 and 7 was the same as the one in the first five panels. But if it is then there’s a time skip, forwards or backwards I don’t know which, as the clothes and head changed.

My first thought about the head shape was the the kick spun the horizontal part in alignment to the circular outer rim, but that’s not it. In the first panels the part inside the ring is square, or at least has sharp corners, while in the last two panels the central part of his head fit’s smoothly inside the ring…

Dang it, I really wanted it to be the kick that spun that part of his head, locking it in place and exposing a second set of cameras…

So are we looking at two individuals or a single individ at different times? I guess the later, but frankly, I have no idea…

What’s confusing me is that in the last panel, and the beginning of this one, the “Fake Man” didn’t have a hat or coat, just the shirt and maybe pants. So, in the last panel, where did the coat and hat come from? The smoking man?

Once upon a time, many many moons ago, I worked as a engineering lab tech for an OEM. We got in one of the first SSD “drives” made. Slow chips, but it would plug into an IDE interface. One of the guys asked me, “why would anybody use that thing?” So I took it, and slammed it several times against the bench. “That’s why. Shock resistance to forces that would destroy a normal hard drive.”

So no, the robot isn’t suffering from a concussion. We have merely been invited to witness its perceived reality. The lyrics to Mr. Roboto leap to mind.

Also, it’s interesting that he wasn’t robbed. The people are honest jerkwads.

your ssd drive might be a lot less sophisticated than the brain of a robot in the future. sophistication tends to makes things more frail, in a way. like how a cockroach can survive a while without a head. humans, not as long.

also, i think he’s still getting robbed. that he held onto the cash as he hit the ground doesn’t mean it’ll be his for long.

I bet for parts count it will be similar. That loop head didn’t have enough room for the necessary parts count. There will be more in the body, plus the chips in the extremities. For instance, our guts effectively contain a second brain, which gives us our “gut feeling.” Sure, the power units may be shut down, but I bet the whole of the robot could be recovered from just one of the chips.

For instance, say Virgil got riddled with a machine gun. Is Virgil “dead?” No. He is incapacitated. As long as any of his memory systems are accessible, he can be recovered. It would take a fry job to destroy him, or any other robot.

The only way for a robot to suffer from a concussion would be for it to have its thinking mechanism have biological components, i.e., a real brain. Perhaps in the future there will be AIs with a mix of circuitry and wet-ware.

for all intents and purposes, i’m trying to make the robots feel about as damageable as humans. frail in some ways, strong in others, depending on the individual. for the sake of character development, i don’t want to get hung up on too many technicals, unless it works with the story. ‘technically’ in the real world, any mmachine can have it’s memory swapped out with another, but for the sake of the story, and world building, it’s no easier to swap a robots brain with a human. and would pose the same dangers.